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Harvard Unleashes Swarm of Robots

8/14/2014 2:00PM

Harvard University scientists have developed a thousand tiny robots that, like swarming bees or army ants, can work together in vast numbers without a guiding central intelligence, in the largest team so far of self-organizing mobile robots. Photo: Michael Rubenstein, Harvard University.

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